Gulman’s had fairly a journey by means of the depths of crippling despair to a brand new 90-minute present, “Born On third Base,” which he’ll carry out at Carnegie on November 13 as a part of the New York Comedy Pageant. Gulman’s 2019 HBO particular “The Nice Depresh,” lined a bout of despair he skilled that landed him within the hospital.
This particular, he tells CNN, is rather less heavy.
“It is nonetheless autobiographical, however it’s extra about my childhood, of being on free lunch and meals stamps and welfare and simply, I assume tales in a humorous method about how we have handled poor children in America,” Gulman says. “And in addition some tales of earnings inequality in my remark and monetary insecurity in America and the way it pertains to my life.”
Gulman says though the subject material is critical, he says it is “in all probability my funniest particular up to now.”
Gulman wrote the set over the previous 18 months, throughout which he additionally penned a memoir. Though he is uncertain despair can ever be cured, he says he’s in a a lot better place now.
“I am doing nice. I feel type of one of many advantages of getting been by means of such a extreme and in depth bout of despair is that I am actually conscious. I might say vigilant about any kind of indicators that I want to regulate my habits with a purpose to keep at bay one other bout,” Gulman shares. “I train practically day by day and I eat proper and I’m going to my therapist and I take my drugs. I am hyperaware of what I must do to be sure that temper and my psychological well being is maintained. I am grateful for that.”
He has had shorter durations of despair, Gulman says, however his restoration is faster and the bouts have by no means been as dangerous because the one he covers in “The Nice Depresh.”
Gulman may also be seen within the upcoming Amy Schumer Hulu mission “Life and Beth.” He says he loved taking part in Schlomo, an observant Jewish man who loves folks.
“I obtained a extremely enjoyable half on that and obtained to hold round with Amy and Michael [Rapaport] and different comedians on the present, and it was actually, it was a lot enjoyable,” he says. “The present is actually humorous and well-written, and she or he’s such an amazing actress and comic and a good friend.”
As for Carnegie Corridor, Gulman calls it a dream come true.
“I imply, look, it is Carnegie Corridor,” he says. “My desires had been by no means audacious sufficient to actually dream of performing it at Carnegie Corridor. It is actually a dream come true.”
